1. Social Studies 20-1 Nationalism
Related Issue I: To what extent should nation be the foundation of identity?
Chapter 5: To what extent do contending loyalties need to be reconciled?

2. Chapter Inquiries What are contending loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending nationalism loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

3. What are contending loyalties?

4. Nationalism and Loyalty
People feel a sense of loyalty, commitment, and identification with a particular nation
How deep does one’s loyalty to a nation have to be?
Does this depend on the nation and/or circumstances?
Are there times when your loyalty to a nation might be challenged?

5. Contending Nationalist Loyalties in Canada
What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?

6. Contending Loyalties of French Canadians
What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?
What are the existing contending loyalties in each case? Do/did they require reconciliation?
Language Loyalties and Bill 101
The Rise of the ADQ
French Canadians Fighting for Canada
Voices: The Van Doos, p. 106

7. Contending Loyalties of Aboriginal Canadians
What challenges arise from having contending nationalist loyalties?
Aboriginal people, Aboriginal nations vs Canada
Ideas and Opinions, p. 107
First Nations and the Meech Lake Accord
How did Elijah Harper and Phil Fontaine’s loyalties to the First Nations influence their actions?
The Dene’s desire for self-determination
Inuit Perspectives
Labrador Inuit delay vote on uranium mining (p. 109)

8. Non-Nationalist Loyalties
What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?

9. Religious Loyalties and Civic Loyalties
What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?
Canadians have the right to freedom of religion AKA One can challenge laws & regulations if they feel their religious freedom is at risk
Hutterites exempt from driver’s licence photos (p. 112/3)
How does this example demonstrate a reconciliation of contending loyalties?
Can you think of other examples in which religious beliefs contend with civic laws or social conventions?

10. Religious Loyalties and Civic Loyalties (cont’d)
What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?
Conscientious Objection in Canada
German Hutterites, Dutch Mennonites and Russian Doukhobors
Pacifists, financially contributed to WW victims
Fellow Canadians questioned their loyalty to Canada
Regional Loyalties in Canada
Think about your ties to a region. What would you identify as your region, and how strongly are you and the people around you attached to it?
Do you regional loyalties contend with any other loyalties you have? Explain.

11. What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?

12. Environmentalism and Contending Loyalties
What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?
Conservation and rehabilitation of the natural environment following the damage caused by human consumption and development
Needs of the environment vs needs of humankind
Figure 5-8, p. 117
Read: Forest Loss in Sumatra Becomes a Global Issue (p. 118)
Create a mind map that illustrates the stakeholders involved in this case and what loyalties they might have (refer to Figure 5-8)

13. Humanitarianism and Contending Loyalties
What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?
What is humanitarianism?
Root word
How may loyalty to humanitarian beliefs be subject to contentious loyalties?
Quick glimpse of misery in Haiti (p. 120)
Should the Canadian government respond to the plight of people in other nations?
How should we choose which nations to support?

14. At this point, you should be able to respond to the initial chapter inquiries
What are contending loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending nationalism loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending non-nationalist loyalties?
What challenges arise from having contending global loyalties?